reverse lookups [was Re: Release page review / comments, plus HEADS UP to our mirrors.]

[Bill Hacker]

Jay wrote:

On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 08:51:49PM -0700, Claus Assmann wrote:

The (static) IPv4 address of my computer is 63.195.85.27 which maps
to adsl-63-195-85-27.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net
Forward and reverse lookup match; sendmail will not complain about
the mapping (BTW: I'm the sendmail maintainer, so I know a bit about
MTAs and anti-spam measures... and as I run the next generation of
sendmail on my system I won't use some external "smart host".)


You need an in-addr.arpa delegation.  Then you can make the appropriate
entries in your DNS server.  Unfortunately, I rate the chances of
pacbell delegating a DSL user a reverse zone about zero.
Nowhere near that high ;-)

Bill